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Originally Posted by silasg
Yes ok, I agree that this should fall into the responsibility of the publisher. But well, on the other hand: Amazon has such a big influence (file format, prices and so on...), why not using this to ensure some quality? I read a lot of German texts and, you know, we like joining words to produce quite long funny compounds like "Donaudampfschifffahrtskapitän" (ok ok, this _is_ a quite artificial example but you get the point). So it is good to know that I have to preprocess my ebooks in any case after buying it, since in that case I might consider buying them somewhere else, if there are some other reasons for that.
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I guess thus is because to extend their sells they value much more not to loose potential publishers (relatively only a few) rather than not to loose a few readers because of the hyphenation, which normally is only an aesthetic problem. Makes sense, if not many readers start complaining.
Rather than asking myself why they don't force publishers to pre-hypenate their books, I wonder why they don't implement an algorithm that is able to handle "hardware" hyphenation, since this is not rocket science and almost every reader has it...